---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cemeteries: temporary manager."
description: "Existing law, the Cemetery Act, provides for the licensing and regulation of certain private cemeteries by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau. Existing law requires all cemeteries for which a certificate of authority is required to be supervised by a licensed cemetery manager, and prohibits a person from engaging in the business of, acting as, or advertising as, a cemetery manager without a license from the bureau and without being employed by, or a corporate officer of, a licensed cemetery."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 124"
citation: "California AB 124 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cemeteries: temporary manager."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Galgiani"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2009-01-15"
last_action: "2009-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e085f4a1-9101-44ec-b03c-c4e9e2ae1785"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB124"
source_hash: "fa9eae75345f8dcdf2b23d248ff9b0acbf62bde566261e325aa1c8ab17059ae4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 124 (20092010) — Cemeteries: temporary manager.

Existing law, the Cemetery Act, provides for the licensing and regulation of certain private cemeteries by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau. Existing law requires all cemeteries for which a certificate of authority is required to be supervised by a licensed cemetery manager, and prohibits a person from engaging in the business of, acting as, or advertising as, a cemetery manager without a license from the bureau and without being employed by, or a corporate officer of, a licensed cemetery.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/15/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB124&version=20090AB12499INT)
2. **06/16/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB124&version=20090AB12498AMD)
3. **06/18/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB124&version=20090AB12497AMD)
4. **08/06/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB124&version=20090AB12495CHP)
5. **AB124** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB124)
6. **07/09/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB124&version=20090AB12496ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 124 GALGIANI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #11 AB124 Galgiani By Denham — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 124 GALGIANI Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Galgiani — primary (person)
- Denham — coauthor (person)
- Krekorian — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2009-01-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-01-16** From printer. May be heard in committee February 15.
- **2009-02-26** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-17** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (March 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-03-18** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-03-23** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 626.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-03-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-04-30** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 8). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-16** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-16** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-06-18** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-22** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-25** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-06-29** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1519.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 1 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-07-06** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2383.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-07-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2009-08-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-08-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 83, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e085f4a1-9101-44ec-b03c-c4e9e2ae1785`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).